Party Leaders Go Rogue In Debt Ceiling Talkshttp://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-democrats-balk-at-debt-ceiling-grand-bargain-2011-7/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:37:16 -0400Zeke Millerhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e1957bd4bd7c80a3f310000DNNSun, 10 Jul 2011 03:41:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e1957bd4bd7c80a3f310000
can't we awl jus git alawng ?
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Time for a new political brand, or brands. I'm sick of the Jackass and the Pachyderm; might as well be the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks for all the good they're doing for the country.
Come on all you hi-tech billionaires out there, help us create a new political brand with what Buffett would call a "durable competitive advantage".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e18a98f49e2aeb833260000on_facebookSat, 09 Jul 2011 15:18:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e18a98f49e2aeb833260000
regardless of the negotiations one thing for certain: more spending down the read and more debt
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Income taxes in the US are at least a 30 year historical low.
Social Security is in trouble only because for 40 years our elected "leaders" have borrowed from it to fund oil wars which dictated that they put the trust fund dollars into easily accessible T Bills rather than real investments with real return potential.
We are spending 8 times the real annual GDP of Afghanistan in that country each year.
All the terrorists that we are dealing with out of the Middle East have one over-riding concern and have been very vocal about that concern. Hint: it isn't our standard of living or our religious approach within our own country.
We have allowed the corporations that garnered their success here to export the intellectual property and manufacturing expertise developed here to another part of the world, along with the all jobs that are also involved.
We have a resident population of illegal immigrants here that closely mirrors the percentage of unemployed American citizens.
The result is depressed wages, fewer real jobs and extreme pressure on the revenue/ expense equation.
Does anyone in our government have the stones to frame the question accurately and do something about it?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e187c6ecadcbba63b190000Nanci PelosiSat, 09 Jul 2011 12:06:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e187c6ecadcbba63b190000
I love this brinksmanship - it's like Thelma and Louise heading for the canyon. Will Obama veto? Will the Repubes cave again? It's so exciting. We need more subsidies for art history majors.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e18597acadcbba07d140000SkippySat, 09 Jul 2011 09:36:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e18597acadcbba07d140000
Push towards the center.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e184a48cadcbb656a0c0000JimSat, 09 Jul 2011 08:32:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e184a48cadcbb656a0c0000
We are seeing both parties starting to break up over this issue. Obama wants to get elected so he has turn moderate since he knows what they have been doing is not working and does not want to be another Jimmy Carter. Pelosi is a die hard left winger from the great in debt state of California that thinks you cannot decide what kind of toilet paper to buy without government help. Boehner is an old style republican that fights for awhile then gives in making it look like they really did something (remember the big savings during the budget talks that turned into nothing) and Cantor is the new Tea Party damn the torpedo full speed ahead cut the government now representative. I personally like that and think this is an opportunity to really do something about at least some of this money we keep borrowing.
We may in the next years have three parties, the Pelosi party from all the states that are broke, can't reduce spending and already have high taxes begging the Federal government to print some more. Cantor still fighting to reduce more while the pressure is on to spend more, and what is left of the old timers from the Bush era like Boehner, pretend republicans.
We all are in a great deal of trouble.